“CenturyLink has multiple cloud products providing world-class solutions to our customers built on the power of VMware VSAN, a fundamental piece of the complete software-defined data center (SDDC),” said Steve Nolen, senior lead product manager – Private Cloud, CenturyLink. “vSAN has scaled flawlessly to over 11 petabytes of production data on high-performance all-flash devices that provides a consistent application experience for the most demanding workloads, from business-critical applications to cloud-native applications. The rapid innovation in vSAN, as demonstrated by the most recent release, will further help us deliver a robust platform with enterprise-class resiliency and intelligent, self-healing capabilities to enable our customers to rely on a high performance hyper converged infrastructure.”

Product Availability
VMware vSphere 6.7 and VMware vSAN 6.7 are both expected to become available by the end of VMware’s Q1 FY19 (May 4, 2018).

Additional Resources

• Read “Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7!” in the vSphere blog
• Read “Extending Hybrid Cloud Leadership with vSAN 6.7” in the Virtual Blocks blog
• Learn more about VMware vSphere
• Learn more about VMware vSAN
• Connect with VMware on Twitter and Facebook

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• (1) IDC, “Worldwide Virtual Machine Software Market Shares, 2016: Enterprise Virtualization Remains a Datacenter Mainstay,” doc # US42136517, Dec. 2017
• (2) Total spending on hyperconverged systems running VMware vSAN software represented 32.4% of total 4Q2017 vendor revenue, which was the largest market share. Source: IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, 4Q2017. IDC, Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, 4Q2017, April 2018
• (3) VMware Research based on internal analysis and testing, April 2018

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